Category Archives: Birdlife Zimbabwe

Flamingo Flight; All Things Connected; My Delight!

Posted on April 26, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

Lin Barrie, Flamingo Flight, All Things Connected, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 200 cm – This painting is a portrayal of Flamingoes in flight, celebrating the biodiversity of ecosystems, especially on the West Coast of Africa, and the inter-connectedness of … Continue reading →

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The African BirdFair; A Feast of Birds and Art…

Posted on September 20, 2020 by wineandwilddogs

Covid and lockdown does not stop birding! Birds still fly, wings still beat…. I still sketch and paint, and birders take flight onto the internet airwaves, going virtual! Rooting around cyberspace clues, digging into virtual exhibitions and online zoom chats … Continue reading →

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Lin Barrie Catalogue, Bird Art

Posted on August 13, 2020 by wineandwilddogs

Lin Barrie Catalogue, Bird Art   Brown necked parrots, oil on canvas, framed/glassed, 61 x70 cm  Brown necked parrots, (Cape or Grey headed Parrots), pencil on paper, A2 Carmine season, acrylic on stretched canvas, 90 x 90 cm Corvus sketch, … Continue reading →

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Magical Mukuvisi; Moon and Nightjars

Posted on July 18, 2020 by wineandwilddogs

Magical Mukuvisi ….. A memory from my childhood….by Lin Barrie I am the child that wakes scared in the night, seeing a robber’s shadow always in the same position, his hooked nose defined by the handle of my half open … Continue reading →

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Miombo Woodlands inspire colour and drama….

Posted on July 21, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Our unique Miombo Woodlands inspire my art at this time of year as we head into our Zimbabwean spring colours… Msasa leaves will soon burst forth in all the deep warm tones of a Northern hemisphere fall! Interspersed with splashes … Continue reading →

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Of Elephants and Water, Wild Dogs and Birding….

Posted on May 24, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Of Elephants and Water, Wild Dogs and Birding…. May 20th, 2016 We have just spent four intense days at Tsavene… our beautiful but neglected Senuko bush house. Waves and waves of buffalo coming to our muddy Tsavene waterhole, and then … Continue reading →

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“That Lonely Thorn Tree” revisited…where to from here for African rhinos?

Posted on March 6, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

In 2008, my story “That Lonely Thorn Tree” was published by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, (she who wrote that awesome book, Women Who Run With The Wolves”…). SADLY, not much has changed since I wrote this story (reproduced in bold type … Continue reading →

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Long distance flyers honour us with their gentle presence for a few months of our wilderness year…

Posted on February 28, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Falco amurensis breeds in South Eastern Siberia and Northern China Here at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, we watch these gentle raptors wheel in their dozens, sometimes hundreds, above our decks….chasing the seething masses of flying ants that erupt with good … Continue reading →

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Mahove Camp, and the Junction are spectacular wilderness areas to explore from Chilo Gorge Lodge,

Posted on July 31, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

The trip across the Save River from Chilo Gorge Lodge and and into Gonarezhou is always exciting… with fabulous water birds to be spotted on the sand, such as this little Pratincole…… and many vultures still to be seen…thank goodness…Vultures … Continue reading →

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